diff --git a/docs/release-notes.rst b/docs/release-notes.rst
index 6f8b3e4..f77569c 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.rst
+++ b/docs/release-notes.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Next release
 - Dropped support for pyyaml
 - Added new cli argument "--encoding ENCODING" that specifies what encoding to open data and schema files with
 - Enum error strings now output all possible values for easier debugging
+- Implement new type email that uses a relative simple regex to validate email addresses according to RFC 5322 Official Standard
 
 
 1.7.0 (October 3, 2018)
diff --git a/docs/validation-rules.rst b/docs/validation-rules.rst
index 2415937..55daf8d 100644
--- a/docs/validation-rules.rst
+++ b/docs/validation-rules.rst
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ The following types are available:
  - **timestamp**
     - Validates for basic timestamp formats
 
+ - **email**
+    - Validates data is a valid Email address based on RFC 5322 Official Standard
+      ^[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$
+
 
 Example
 
diff --git a/pykwalify/types.py b/pykwalify/types.py
index beb33ad..87585fb 100644
--- a/pykwalify/types.py
+++ b/pykwalify/types.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 # python stdlib
 import datetime
+import re
 from pykwalify.compat import basestring, bytes
 
 DEFAULT_TYPE = "str"
@@ -33,7 +34,8 @@ class text(object):
     "text": text,
     "any": object,
     "enum": str,
-    "none": None
+    "none": None,
+    "email": str,
 }
 
 
@@ -144,6 +146,12 @@ def is_date(obj):
     return isinstance(obj, basestring) or isinstance(obj, datetime.date)
 
 
+def is_email(obj):
+    """
+    """
+    return re.match(r"(^[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$)", obj)
+
+
 tt = {
     "str": is_string,
     "int": is_int,
@@ -157,4 +165,5 @@ def is_date(obj):
     "timestamp": is_timestamp,
     "scalar": is_scalar,
     "date": is_date,
+    "email": is_email,
 }
diff --git a/tests/files/fail/test_type_email.yaml b/tests/files/fail/test_type_email.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c8c18f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/files/fail/test_type_email.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+name: email-1
+desc: basic email type validation. Fails if not conforms with RFC 5322 Official Standard
+#
+schema:
+  type: email
+data:
+  "foobar|gmail.com"
+errors:
+  - "Value 'foobar|gmail.com' is not of type 'email'. Path: ''"
diff --git a/tests/files/success/test_type_email.yaml b/tests/files/success/test_type_email.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4dd4bee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/files/success/test_type_email.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+name: email-1
+desc: basic email type validation. Fails if not conforms with RFC 5322 Official Standard
+#
+schema:
+  type: email
+data:
+  "foobar@gmail.com"
diff --git a/tests/test_core.py b/tests/test_core.py
index bd974df..5f0d184 100644
--- a/tests/test_core.py
+++ b/tests/test_core.py
@@ -437,6 +437,8 @@ def test_core_files(self):
             "test_type_text.yaml",
             # All tests for TYPE: timestamp
             "test_type_timestamp.yaml",
+            # All tests for TYPE: email
+            "test_type_email.yaml",
         ]
 
         _fail_tests = [
@@ -518,6 +520,8 @@ def test_core_files(self):
             ("test_type_text.yaml", SchemaError),
             # All tests for TYPE: timestamp
             ("test_type_timestamp.yaml", SchemaError),
+            # All tests for TYPE: email
+            ("test_type_email.yaml", SchemaError),
         ]
 
         # Add override magic to make it easier to test a specific file